3/26/2023 0 Comments Wake me up in 20 minutes![]() The only challenging part is maintaining consistency long enough to get results.įirst consider that it’s possible for you to fall asleep faster. In fact, the training will most likely save you a significant amount of time. The training process may take a long time - months or even years, depending on how far you want to go - but it’s not at all difficult, and it needn’t take a serious time commitment. It will be no more difficult than blinking. However, once you’ve trained yourself to this point, the process is effortless. So don’t think that there’s some mental trick that you can use right away to make this happen instantly. I reached this point not by the exertion of conscious will but rather through a long-term process of sleep training. But most of the time under normal, average conditions, I can get to sleep within 30 seconds or less. If I have a stressful day and there’s a lot on my mind at night, I may find it more difficult to relax and go to sleep. But when I’m ready to go to sleep, I can go to sleep very quickly without wasting time trying to fall asleep. I can’t normally force myself to sleep when I’m not at all sleepy. I regard this as a positive adaptation though, not a problem or defect. One thing I do have in common with narcoleptics is that I can start having dreams immediately when I fall asleep, whereas most people don’t enter the dream state for at least an hour. I don’t just fall asleep at odd times throughout the day, and I don’t have excessive daytime sleepiness. Is this narcolepsy? No, narcolepsy is very different. ![]() Some time dilation occurs though, so a 1-second dream may feel significantly longer… perhaps as if 5-10 seconds have passed within the dream world. If my sleep time is only a second or a fraction of a second, then it’s obviously a very short dream. I also know that I was sleeping because I awaken with the memory of a dream. How do I know this? Because I have a witness that tells me how long I was out. My best is probably around 1/4 of a second. Today it’s fairly normal for me to fall asleep within 30 seconds or less, and often I’m able to fall asleep in less than 1 second. And very occasionally I could fall asleep within 5 minutes or less if I was very sleepy. Sometimes it would take more than an hour if I had a lot on my mind. Train Your Brain to Fall Asleep FasterĪ decade ago it might have taken me 15-30 minutes to fall asleep most nights. It will still disrupt your sleep a bit, but once you’ve mastered the habit of being able to fall asleep in 30 seconds or less, then most likely you’ll still be able to continue the habit even if you consume some caffeine during the day. If you really love your caffeine though, the good news is that it’s okay to add it back once you’ve gone through this adaptation training. So if you haven’t already done that, please do that first before you attempt the training method I explain later in this article. Simply eliminating all caffeine from your diet can improve your sleep habits tremendously. Consequently, you may wake up tired and need extra sleep. You may also sleep less restfully, and you’ll be prone to awaken more often throughout the night. I also advise that you drop chocolate during this time as well, including cocoa and cacao, since those contain stimulants too.Įven a small cup of coffee in the morning can disrupt your ability to fall asleep quickly at night. ![]() Read How to Give Up Coffee if you need help with that. Drop Caffeine (at Least Initially)įirst, if you drink coffee, tea (including green tea and white tea), yerba mate, cola, or any caffeinated beverages on a semi-regular basis, this method won’t work very well at all, so I strongly recommend that you get off all caffeine for at least 2 weeks before you attempt to make improvements in this area. I’ll explain the details and share a process for training your brain to fall asleep almost instantly when you’re ready to go to bed. If you’d like to change this situation, keep reading. That’s a tremendous amount of wasted time. This is the equivalent of spending more than two 40-hour workweeks just lying in bed waiting to fall asleep.Īnd if you have insomniac tendencies and take more than an hour to fall asleep each night, you’re spending more than nine 40-hour weeks on that pointless activity - every year. Realize that if it takes you 15 minutes on average to fall asleep each night, that’s more than 91 hours per year that you’re wasting. Does it take you a while to fall asleep at night? Do you find your mind dwelling on various thoughts before you’re able to finally drift off and relax into sleep? Do you find that you just aren’t sleepy enough when it’s time for bed? ![]()
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